Java™ How To Program (Early Objects), Tenth Edition

continue Statement

The continue statement, when executed in a while, for or do...while, skips the remaining statements in the loop body and proceeds with the next iteration of the loop. In while and do...while statements, the program evaluates the loop-continuation test immediately after the continue statement executes. In a for statement, the increment expression executes, then the program evaluates the loop-continuation test.

Figure 5.14 uses continue (line 10) to skip the statement at line 12 when the nested if determines that count’s value is 5. When the continue statement executes, program control continues with the increment of the control variable in the for statement (line 7).

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